Dec 11, 2007 Hypercross Puzzle

To Leadfoot, the puzzlemaker:
Thanks for putting a reference on the "Anywhere but Here" picture for those of us that can never place names/faces. I'd have been clueless without it.

Great puzzle. The difficulty was about spot-on.

Once I got the theme, the rest were pretty easy for me. However, I'm still stuck on 2 of them, the one with the auto and the globe, and the one with the pillar and the bandage.
(edit) A few minutes, and a quick google search or two found me a list, and taught me one new one and showed me an old one I just didn't use the right word for.

[1] You're welcome - I can never recognize those pop culture references either!

I only got 20 points-- did that many people already solve it??

This one was somewhat difficult even having a good knowledge of the subject... Good work!

[2] I'm just as lost as you are. I knew I should have taken horticulture in college!

I got 65 points for solving it. This page lies.

[2] the globe is easier if you click on it to blow it up. i'm stuck on the pillar one too, i have no idea what it's supposed to be.

[4] Hmm only 85 solves as of right now...
check your points in your account - probably got more...

Ah, yeah, that "20 points" really is a lie, isn't it.

This was nicely done; everything was quite solid in clueing, and mostly familiar. At least, I knew all of them, and I'm hardly an expert--although one of them, which seems to be giving people trouble, I knew in part because it's the state flower of an ex-roommate of mine.

i seem to have everything but it isn't accepting.

Worked for me.

[8] The pillar is not a pillar, think of what it might be called architecturally.

darn everything but the car one. . .
[9] what is another word for pillar architecturally speaking?

[8] It's not a pillar (or a row). Oh shoot!

Is the first one across spelled right, looks like it has one too many letters

All but the car one. I've got nothing except the starting letter.

I think I know the answer with the pillar but I'm not positive that I am correct, I'll worry about that if I am not correct after filling in the other two I'm missing.

The car/world map and the calandar/e's have me fairly stymied.

[18] The calendar one was surprisingly easy. Focus on calendar related words for the first part of the answer.

some of them are pluralized, try that if you need more letters

[18] Oh, and barring the car one that I can't get, the calendar one was one of the last that came to me for being so simple. :)

[18] Oh, and barring the car one that I can't get, the calendar one was one of the last that came to me for being so simple. :)

[18] Oh, and barring the car one that I can't get, the calendar one was one of the last that came to me for being so simple. :)

Enjoyed it! Thanks!

I thought I had something for the car one but it didn't make sense really. And the calendar, well, the first part seems easy but I cannot make anything out of the e's. I'm going to go work on the other puzzles and come back, maybe it will come to me when I switch tracks with my brain.

[25] I think you may have made something.

For the car one, guys, just think about what flower fits? Car....

[27] I dont know why, but that did it for me...DUH!

Now I am lost on the calendar and column

I think I have them all right, it just isn't accepting my answers

[27] Beat my head against a wall and it just wouldn't come. Finally clicked after a Google search. Don't know why that one wouldn't come to me. Thanks!

Woot! It came to me. I had the wrong word with the calendar. I was very very close and it actually gave me the answer anyhow. I thought it was a really big stretch then I remember a different word with some similar letters that made it a perfect fit.

*removed extreme salt* I couldn't come up with any less salty. . . salt and it seemed a lot of people were really struggling with those two. Took it out all the same.

[19] Thanks....you were right the calendar one is easy...another DUH!

Now for the column/pillar...help...please

[31] that is pretty freakin' salty if you ask me

[31] Thank you so much!

dont mean to be a pest but the column/pillar .......salt...please

[32] hmmm, a certain high school in Colorado with a tragic past.

And wow, that is horrible salt but maybe it will help, or maybe it will just make things a little muddier and if so, my apologies.

*salt, desaltified some*

[35] LOL...actually got it without that salt, but i have never heard of that one in relation to the theme. After it accepted my answer that was the first think I thought of. Perhaps a little too salty...try simply high school tragedy

man that car one took me forever.. but god its so obvious.

slight trick to it, but so obvious.

I feel dumb cuz I have 2 left, but they're not the ones everyone else has had problems with:

Rocket + foot?

Lady + vowels?

Just no clue on these.

[35] Thanks! That gave me the answer I was missing, though I'd never heard of it in this context before.

doctorsoph
The "lady" is a famous religious statue...
the vowels - think periodically...

There is an arrow pointing to something on the foot...

[38] It's not a manned rocket.

thanks leadfoot and revchewie...im pretty dense but that got thru to me for the lady.

Does the type of bird matter?

and the rocket, too, actually...i just kept going down other avenues of thought. thanks!

[43] Yes, the bird matters. I hear that this particular one has a bit of a potty mouth.

I have the answers that I am sure are correct, but it won't accept them!! What is wrong?!!

Edit: duh....it's all good now!

darn plurals.
that makes using a crossword solver a little more difficult

very nice. The pillar stumped be for a bit... thanks for the salt.

I can't seem to figure anything I have wrong. The only plural I have is the one with the car/world. Everything else fits perfect. Can anyone help me figure this out??

I cannot believe how long it took me to figure out the car one. DUH.

That was a great puzzle.

I am stuck on the calendar one, I have filled in every 7 letter 'd' flower name I could find and none work. Help anyone?

[51] Well, you have multiple e's as part of the clue, so it is likely the answer is plural. The answer in this case may be less than seven letters but when made plural becomes seven letters.

[51] Maybe take a look at it in the morning, when the sun's out.

EDIT: Nevermind, I had that one wrong. =)

I like the theme, BTW.

some of these are hilarious.

This may be a personal taste, but does anyone find that inconsistent pluralization makes these puzzles way more difficult than they need to be? Especially when you have the answers, but need to figure out which are plural and which are not.

[57] jgoewert
I considered making them all the same, however, the one with the globe - if I had pointed to just one place, well I think that would have made it WAY WAY harder as people would have been wondering how to fit South Africa (or Ecuador - or Zimbabwe!) into the answer. And going back to add gratuitous "S"s to the rest of the clues was more work than it was worth - especially as some are singular and plural as they stand (I think).

So, I left it as part of the puzzle to figure out which are plural, and which are not - I think they are fairly clued to figure that out.

[57][58] I found it annoying, but not any more difficult. The rest of the cluing was solid enough that I got the answers, plurals included (more than one "E" = ending in an "ees" sound; therefore plural). I see your dilemma, Leadfoot; the other way would have been to put "generic" and just point to one. With the theme I think we would have gotten it.

[6] You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. *rimshot*

if that map is talking about what each of those arrows is individually pointing to, as a generalization, then the word I have fits, but I've never heard of it and I'm not googling anything that would fit in the theme. Any more salt for the completely ignorant??

[59] horticulture - OUCH! - and thanks for the "generic" idea

[60] it sounds like you have the map one right, except you've never heard of it? - it's pretty common. You can tangagram me what you have and I'll confirm or nudge you in the right direction...

HAHAHA...I'm sitting here at work and finally said out loud OH DUH!!!
Very good puzzle. Enjoyed it a lot and thanks for the help!

[62] Glad you got it! and you're welcome

UGH! I can't believed I struggled for that long with a bird!

Thanks leadfoot! Great puzzle. It was interesting that I found all but like three of the answers very poisonous. :-P

Hmmm - and I'm not even sure they all actually have a good odor...

I would love some salt on the hand in the "pillar" clue. I've figured out what the "pillar" actually is, but am clueless on the hand...

Thanks.

[60] They make a good Instant Breakfast.

[67] If you wrap something, or tie something up, you ??? it? The final answer sounds a lot like a big piece of farm equipment.

[69] Or an infamous high school in Colorado.

The stick in that mug for the sixth picture looks awfully familiar... possibly related to the other puzzle. :)

[71] I actually found that stick independently, but maybe renfurdson used the same source too... Coincidences do happen.

edit:
It does look like it has the same nicks in it! How neat!

SALT ALRET:

The car one for those who are stuck, is dumb in my opinion, I finally got it by looking through all planets and flowers that started with a Car.. of 6-7 characters in length and then it hit me.

There are a couple of clues that fit more than one answer, so if you're stuck, look at clues again.